Outreach Christian Ministry

by Julie Branstetter, Th.B.

Elm City, Nc

Welcome to my ministry blog. I graduated seminary at Nashville Theological Seminary in 2008, where I received my Bachelor of Theology. My outreach ministry beyond my local church is Kingdom Covenant Ministries. KCM was chartered in 2008 through the National Association of Christian Ministers. My husband and I are currently participating in the Church of God Callings and Ministries Studies Program. My husband and I have ministered worship, preached and taught the gospel in churches and other places. My family worships with a beautiful congregation at Farmington Heights Church in Wilson, NC. We help with worship and small groups there. KCM is a Christ focused, teaching and evangelizing ministry. We receive donations regularly to help national and international missions. Various brothers and sisters in ministry in other countries have already received support including Kenya, India, Pakistan, Canada, Israel and also various places within the United States.

There
were several verses that jumped out at me over the first 12 pages of
the new reading schedule but one that brought me to tears was when God
looked on people and regretted having created them because of their
wickedness and sin. That just filled me with sadness. To imagine God,
our creator, who loves without end looking upon sinful man and wishing
he had never made us. Can you imagine just how bad it had to have really
been for God to feel that way. And it paints a picture of God that is
sometimes neglected. He's is a Spirit, but He is also more than a
Spirit. He is human but He is also more than human. He is the basis and
intent and will of all that exist and yet He is more than that. And then
in just a few verses we see a side of God that is so tender and
understandable. It can prick your heart to know that we have all been
the culprit of causing that pain in Him at some point because all have
sinned and fallen from His glory. What it must do to the Lord to see man
in sin especially now that Christ has been given. We shouldn't merely
turn from sin because sin itself is so bad; we should turn from sin
because of our deep and profound love for God. I am very loyal to my
husband, not because I should be, but because I love him so much the
thought of hurting him hurts me. The thought of him being disappointed
in me or being hurt by me is more than I can bare. When we can live
right before God FOR THAT REASON then we've hit the nail on the head.
Then our devotion comes from a place of pure love and our religion is
more than legal passage, but a compelling natural instinct as from one
who loves with a Godly kind of love.